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Hi John,
Idaho wants to eradicate up to 90% of its wolf population.
Montana allows a single individual to hunt down and trap 20 wolves.
We're taking action to stop it.
You can help with a gift to the Wolf Defense Fund.
Together Idaho and Montana have received more than $200 million from the federal government for wildlife management over the past seven years.
But because of their unethical tactics in targeting wolves — allowing night-vision scopes for hunting and painful strangulation snares for trapping — we've petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to take that money away.
Idaho wants to pay private contractors to kill wolves and has greenlighted running down the animals with ATVs and snowmobiles. It doesn't deserve the support it receives from the federal government to manage wildlife.
Montana extended the trapping season by four weeks and approved a bounty program to pay wolf-killers.
Biologists, former wildlife commissioners, and the public agree these brutal tactics have no place in wolf management.
They're also mean-spirited to a species beloved by most Americans — icons of the wild country.
Under the Pittman-Robertson Act, a state may be deemed ineligible to receive federal funding for wildlife management and outdoor recreation projects if it passes legislation contrary to the Act.
It's time for Idaho and Montana to pay a price for their bitter war on wolves.
We fought tooth and nail to restore protection to wolves across the lower 48 states, but that restored protection excluded wolves in the northern Rocky Mountains. So we're doing all we can to save them, too.
We haven't come all this way to save wolves just to see rogue states wipe them out.
This is the work we're called to do — and we need your help.
Please donate to the Wolf Defense Fund today today.
For the wild,
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